Wow. CNN and the Environmental News Network are both reporting that a microbe has been recovered from the upper earth atmosphere which could have extraterrestrial origins. From CNN:"The living bacteria, plucked from an
altitude of 10 miles (16 km) or
higher by a scientific balloon, could
have been deposited in terrestrial
airspace by a passing comet,
according to the researchers.
The microorganisms are unlike any
known on Earth, but the
astrobiologists 'want to keep the
details under wraps until they are absolutely convinced that these are
extraterrestrial,' said study participant Chandra Wickramasinghe, a
noted scientist at Cardiff University in Wales." I'm trusting genehack on this: "If they're right,
it's huge, but I fear that eliminating all the other, more likely explanations is
going to take quite a bit of work."
|
- jim 11-27-2000 2:09 pm